Habib Azar
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Habib Azar is an American film, theater and television director.
after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University at the age of 22.
In 2007, Habib Azar won an Emmy Award for directing As the World Turns
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Azar has directed numerous plays including Kyle Jarrow’s Gorilla Man at PS122 for which the Village Voice said his direction “snaps, crackles, and rocks.” His directing credits feature contemporary operas in the US and abroad, including Lewis Nielson’s USW which will premiere in February 2010. Azar has worked as a 3-camera rehearsal director for the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series and has directed webcasts for Live From Lincoln Center including performances by the New York Philharmonic and Wynton Marsalis. Also an accomplished composer and conductor, his most notable commission was for his second opera Heliopause, which premiered at the Wats:on? Festival in Pittsburgh. Armless is his first feature film.
His first feature film Armless was an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the new category 'NEXT' which selects films for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. Armless is an off-kilter comedy about a man who suffers from a strange psychologicial condition.
The Young and the Restless
Armless
Career
He began his television directing career at the daytime soap opera As the World TurnsAs the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University at the age of 22.
In 2007, Habib Azar won an Emmy Award for directing As the World Turns
As the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
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Azar has directed numerous plays including Kyle Jarrow’s Gorilla Man at PS122 for which the Village Voice said his direction “snaps, crackles, and rocks.” His directing credits feature contemporary operas in the US and abroad, including Lewis Nielson’s USW which will premiere in February 2010. Azar has worked as a 3-camera rehearsal director for the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series and has directed webcasts for Live From Lincoln Center including performances by the New York Philharmonic and Wynton Marsalis. Also an accomplished composer and conductor, his most notable commission was for his second opera Heliopause, which premiered at the Wats:on? Festival in Pittsburgh. Armless is his first feature film.
His first feature film Armless was an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the new category 'NEXT' which selects films for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. Armless is an off-kilter comedy about a man who suffers from a strange psychologicial condition.
Directing Credits
As the World TurnsAs the World Turns
As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1956 to September 17, 2010. Irna Phillips created As the World Turns as a sister show to her other soap opera Guiding Light...
- Occasional Director (2002–2004)
- Director (2005–2010)
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless
The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...
- Occasional Director (May 20, 2010–Present)
Armless
Armless (2010 film)
Armless is a 2010 comedy film directed by Habib Azar and written by Kyle Jarrow, starring Daniel London, Janel Moloney, Matt Walton, Zoe Lister-Jones and Laurie Kennedy....
- Feature Film (2010), official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival 'Next' Category